Example sentences of "[vb past] leave [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we 'd left it to the day we 'd have been sunk ! |
| 2 | I 'd left it to the end of the meal before I said anything about being arrested . |
| 3 | " You mean you 'd left it to chance ? " |
| 4 | He decided to leave them to it , and as he came out on the landing he almost collided with Beryl who must have been eavesdropping . |
| 5 | In the end she decided to leave it to fate . |
| 6 | He quite liked to leave it to me . |
| 7 | ‘ But I already have an assault charge hanging over me , so in the end I had to leave it to the stewards . |
| 8 | The occupying Japanese forces had apparently been so terrified by the Toraja that after a few peremptory massacres they had left them to themselves . |
| 9 | Either by accident or as punishment for his sins , she had left him to the mercy of the Bogeyman . |
| 10 | Not anything like it would have been if Uncle Bill had left it to me in the first place , because it will pay duty twice . ’ |
| 11 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 12 | The circumstance that the employer had left it to the contractor to provide the requisite third party security would not , without more , prevent the employer from enforcing the security . |
| 13 | In both cases the creditor had left it to the debtor husband to deal with the surety , his wife , and had done nothing to satisfy itself that she understood what she was doing or to protect her from abuse by the debtor of the influence and reliance that would be likely to be present . |
| 14 | Antoinette had left it to her , plus some gold bangles and a string of pearls . |
| 15 | And you had best be grateful to me , for if you had left it to the little men of law he could buy better and shiftier than you , and you would never have got your money at all . ’ |